The State of Ashmun is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 31.369 billion Ashmunians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 38.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Ashmunian economy, worth a remarkable 1,291 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 41,156 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly atheist, Ashmun has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Ashmun in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ashmun's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Ashmun is ranked 122,482^nd in the world and 172^nd in State for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.